Sentences with phrase «escapism into»

With the collapse of the Tang dynasty, this escapism into the natural world became even more prominent among the cultured men, who found the idea of seeking a safe haven in the mountains more appealing than dealing with the failure of human community and the chaos of the dynastic subsidence.

The Brothers Bloom is an odd, somewhat distancing, but still curiously satisfying confection that may not leave the indelible impression in the mind that Brick does, but, thanks to the brilliant performances, literary presentation, and kitschy European art design, offers a nice bit of escapism into its uniquely quirky world, not dissimilar to the way Wes Anderson might do if he were to create a film with more of a conventional plot (Anderson's Bottle Rocket perhaps comes closest to the spirit of Johnson's film from a story standpoint).

Not exact matches

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

It will then be transformed into the style of religious escapism known as «gnosticism.»

This is where self - care comes into play, but only up until the last few years did I really start to determine the difference between self - care and escapism.

«I found them just something you could dive into — it was extraordinary escapism.»

Forget the human subplots that writers have managed to weave into the extraordinary tales of recent years — there are no debates on the concept of power or how it should be used, no treatises on the nature of fear — this is pure and unrefined escapism.

Everything from breaking up the movie into chapters (titles rendered in trendy fonts) to faux - New Wave montages, to doubling - up on visual information with unnecessary voice - over (for instance, as Hawkins and Considine leave a restaurant together and enter his crystal - covered van, Oliver announces to the viewer: â $ œIt seems dear Mom is having an affair.â $), all provide escapism, not for the audience into the movie, but for the movie away from itself.

Then there are people like me, who feel like they left some fragment of themselves frozen in that moment, when Sean Baker's feature takes a leap into the saddest instance of escapism 2017 had to offer.

Edge of Tomorrow remembers it, along with a few other things about that movie and others, weaving all its inspirations into an entertaining slice of summer escapism.

Then Colbert launched into his song - and - dance number that married escapism with serious headlines.

Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who made a critical splash with his very tense Oscar - winning The Lives of Others, creates this armchair tourist concoction, based on a little seen French film from 2005 called Anthony Zimmer, utilizing without abandon the ample eye candy he has, which is really all he has, framing everything to lull audiences into a sense of picturesque escapism.

Here are a few sci - fi stories to expand your imagination, provide some summer time escapism, and maybe get you thinking about how to bring the power of speculative literature's exploration of freedom into your classroom.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

There are so many other things that we are trying to bring into the real world like the fuel rods, the energy drinks, the escapism, the computer game.

On bigger days surfers who fail to make the first section will find themselves in all manner of trouble as the cross currents turn a speedy exit from the impact zone into a major feat of escapism.

All our precious time and money that we have poured into Miitomo because we love the tiny escapism that it gives us.

Without retreating into denial or escapism, the gathering, true to its title, «The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp,» was a dose of optimism in dark times.